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Monday, 26 June 2017

New York Pride marchers target Trump, San Francisco parties

New York Pride marchers target Trump, San Francisco parties
- Large crowds turned out for Pride marches on
Sunday in New York City and San Francisco, the two U.S. places most
associated with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights
movement, with the East Coast city bringing a more political flavour to
the event sparked by events there almost 50 years ago.
A group of marchers heading down New
York's Fifth Avenue carried photographs of Trump and his press
secretary, Sean Spicer, as others waved banners bearing the word
'RESIST' and the rainbow flag of the Pride movement.
In contrast, a smattering of anti-Trump
signs in San Francisco was drowned out by a desire to let loose. "It's
too good a day to be upset about Trump," said Richard Babb, 66, of San
Francisco.
In New York, Brad Hoylman, a Democratic
lawmaker in the New York State Senate, said lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people were "under assault" by the Trump administration.